The playmat was marked down to $10 from $18.  Comes with an "exclusive Sponsorless McQueen".  Very nice quality workmanship.  Has a seam right down the center of the hood.  BobbyJack asked me what it transformed into.  The wheels don't roll either.  So he lets his little sister play with it.

I have to admit, I have just as much if not more fun playing too.

Here are our shelves of Pixar Cars, Heavy Metal, Rescue Squad, UFM, and Mater the Greater Cars…

Here are our Impounds, DS Frank and Tractors, El Matordor, and Tokyo Mater Cars…

We set these up a few weeks ago, but I was waiting to post them until we opened up our last Toons Car today; Props McGee!  Still need a few but no Toons cars left in reserve as of right now.

Lookin' good there bobbyjack! Keep 'em comin'!

Sweet, your son is so lucky!

Oh, cool. Good price for those. The bigger, moveable Wall-E action figures were pretty neat too.  We got a lot of mileage out of the Wall-E version from which you could form & eject play-dough garbage blocks.

So Francesco it is, eh?  Manifold Jr. was heavily into the Cars 2 bad guys and good guys for several months, but lately he has been setting up race scenes again.  Yesterday, Fred Fisbowski was caught in a popsicle-stick and twist-tie trap and forced to watch the piston cup race.  Mario Andretti ended up pulling through for the win, over Francesco, McQueen, Chick, and everyone. Tow pulled a lot of cars out of wreckage. Tia loved it.   I'm really not sure which Cars to reveal for upcoming prizes and holidays, as now he just wants Blu-Ray McQueen (he saw the collector guide – ugh) and Detective Mater(!). Have fun!

not to jump in but the front does close , i have about 25 or so of the carney cases also some other  brands and i do like the carney ones the best   good job bobby jack

2011 year end update…

Christmas is over but BobbyJack's Birthday is still coming up.  We added Ramone's House of Body Art to our Radiator Springs set-up thanks to Snosno.

Then we added on to our Mater Tales/Cars 2 action playset collection too.

Right after we opened up The Wrastlin' Ring, The Tormentor broke his tailhook off, so now he is just for Wrastlin' and we had to take our extra one of the Trading block to go in our display.

We will post our other new additions after BobbyJack's birthday in a couple of weeks.

He went to his first Monster Truck show when he was 2 and watches Monster Jam on Speed Channel.  We have about 20 of the Rev N Go Trucks.  The soft rubber tires and plastic bodies are a little better for rough play.  They are in a pretty good scale with Monster Truck Mater cars too.  We went to the Monster Jam show in Baltimore last summer and they just started showing that one on TV.  He just started getting the smaller diecast ones and has about 3 so far.  I let his mom get those for him, while I will stick to hunting for Disney Cars and Transformers.

WOW! That's actually impressive! Lots of hard-to-find Haulers. I wish I had some of those!